This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma's engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in...
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This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma's engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples from Asia, Asian America, and Asian Diaspora from the West, the book weaves a narrative that challenges the twenty-first century triumphal discourse of Asia and argues that given the long shadow cast across modern film and literature, this upward mobility is inescapably escapist, a flight from itself; A
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Asian diaspora visual culture; 1 Shadow's shadow in visual culture: Anime's doll, alien's home; 2 Inter-Asia unbilical love in visual culture; 3 Chinese cinema's global dream, multilinguality, and dialect's wake; 4 Found(l)ing Taiwanese: From Chinese fatherland to Japanese Okasan; 5 Genesis by the sword and special effects in Korean TV costume drama; Part II Asian diaspora literature; 6 Chinese graffiti: Poetic out from Muk Lau, Tongyan Gaai, and House of English
7 Italic and indiscernible Asianness in Asian diaspora literature8 Tears of Asian diaspora in The Namesake: Empathetic nostalgia from an eyehole; 9 Eileen Chang and Zhang Ailing: A bilingual orphan; 10 Chink chic, a.k.a., shitnoiserie; Notes; Bibliography; Index